Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibration device, method of driving the same, and camera
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Application No.: US16008071Application Date: 2018-06-14
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Publication No.: US10444495B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Katsumi Fujimoto , Shinsuke Ikeuchi , Kenji Nishiyama , Masanobu Nomura
- Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Keating & Bennett, LLP
- Priority: JP2016-040994 20160303
- Main IPC: G02B27/00
- IPC: G02B27/00 ; G03B17/08 ; G03B17/56 ; H04N5/225 ; G03B17/02

Abstract:
A vibration device includes a cylindrical vibration body portion including a cylindrical member and a piezoelectric vibrator fixed to the cylindrical member, and a light-transparent body portion that includes an outer peripheral portion connected to an end surface of the cylindrical member and a light-transparent portion positioned in front of a lens. The light-transparent body portion vibrates in a bending mode by vibration of the cylindrical vibration body portion. The bending mode includes a first bending mode in which a center-maximum-displacement portion of the light-transparent body portion and the outer peripheral portion of the light-transparent body portion connected to the end surface are displaced in the same direction and a second bending mode in which the center-maximum-displacement portion of the light-transparent body portion and the outer peripheral portion of the light-transparent body portion are displaced in opposite directions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180292646A1 VIBRATION DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, AND CAMERA Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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